Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your JDF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert JDF to another file type
To convert JDF data files to another format, you need JEOL Delta or other Data software.
Convert a file to JDF
To convert other file formats to the "Scientific Data & XML" file type, you need software like JEOL Delta or a similar tool.
About JDF files
The .jdf extension mainly relates to two distinct file types: proprietary NMR spectroscopy data files generated by JEOL instruments, and Job Definition Format files, which are XML-based job tickets managed by the CIP4 organization for commercial printing software like Caldera or Adobe Acrobat. It is also occasionally used for John Deere agricultural logs and Ubisoft Jade engine save states. The primary issue with .jdf NMR files is their proprietary binary nature. They require specialized, expensive software like JEOL Delta to interpret the multi-dimensional spectral data. Without it, you cannot view the spectrum. Job Definition Format files, while technically readable as XML, often contain references to external assets and printing instructions that generic viewers cannot render into a visual layout. They are designed for machine-to-machine communication in a print workflow. For NMR data, converting to CSV or standard TXT is ideal for data plotting, while exporting visual spectra to PDF or PNG is necessary for sharing. Printing JDF files are already XML, so text conversion is trivial, but extracting the actual print layout requires the original RIP software. Because most .jdf files are deeply integrated into specific workflows, standard online converters fail to process them. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your JDF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert JDF file to PDF, FID, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML or ENV, you can use JEOL Delta or similar software from the "NMR Data & Print Tickets" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to JDF, try JEOL Delta or another comparable tool in the "NMR Data & Print Tickets" category.
The JDF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our JDF converter.